Identification of the true self/soul with the physical body is the seed of the illusory pain of birth etc. in people attached to the unreal, so get rid of it with care. When this thought is eliminated, there is no more desire for illusory rebirth.
The five activities forms the vitality sheath, by which the material sheath is filled, and engages in all these activities within the experience of duality and duality is experienced as reality. Thus it is necessary to know the duality is mere illusion/mirage in order to realize the non dual truth.
The Breath, being part of the illusion, is not one's true nature either. Like the air, it enters and leaves the body within the waking/dream, thus it cannot be considered as soul/self.
There is no such thing as ignorance beyond the thinking mind. Thought is itself ignorance, the cause of the bondage of becoming. When thought is eliminated, everything else is eliminated. When thought increases ignorance becomes firmer. Thus seeker of truth has to realize the thought rises within the waking /dream, therefore, it is necessary to know the source of the three states, not the source of the thought in order to overcome the duality.
In sleep which is devoid of actual experience, it is the soul alone which is in the form of everything, the experiencer and everything else, and in the waking experience there is no difference. All the three states are soul in there substance.
In deep sleep when the waking experience has gone into abeyance there is nothing, by every one's experience, so individual experience, such as birth, life and death happens within the waking experience, and has no real existence.
Cloud is gathered by the wind, and is driven away by it too. Bondage is created out of the soul/self, and liberation is the knowledge of the soul/self.
By dwelling with desire on the body and other senses the mind binds a man like an animal with a chain, and the seeking mind liberates him from the bond by making him realize the fact that three states are unreal.
The true self/soul, although itself motionless, becomes the actor and the experiencer while identified with this superimposition. Allied to the intellect, just a part of itself, although the true self of everything, and beyond the limitations of such an existence, it identifies itself with this illusory self - as if gold were to identify itself with different shapes of ornaments.
